Data Governance Associate Director

Responsibilities CCO Data Governance

• Proactively identify and prioritize data gaps, opportunities, and dependencies, developing actionable roadmaps with business and technology stakeholders.
• Establish governance frameworks for CCO data management and utilization, including definition and maintenance of critical data elements, schemas, integration maps, business glossaries, ownership models, and stewardship expectations across key CCO data domains.
• Establish and chair CCO data governance forums, including decision‑making processes, issue escalation routes, and reporting on progress against the data roadmap.

• Act as the business custodian for CCO data, ensuring appropriate ownership and controls, and maintaining alignment with firm‑wide standards.
• Review and approve proposed changes to data structures, definitions, and usage to ensure data sustainability and integrity.
• Maintain CCO data quality standards through implementation of scorecards, compliance reporting, and remediation processes for priority data sets, with clear accountability for issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Oversee data lineage, classification, retention and access control requirements for CCO data, and support audit, regulatory and risk review activity as required.
• Define and enforce data usage standards and KPI definitions to ensure consistency in CCO insights reporting.

• Promote a data‑driven culture and strengthen data literacy across CCO functions (Sales, Relationship Management, Marketing) through guidance, training and best practices.
• Serve as a central point of contact for data‑related questions and issues, and effectively communicate potential data impacts to senior stakeholders.
• Build and lead a network of data owners and stewards across CCO functions to embed accountability, improve adoption of standards, and accelerate issue resolution.
• Participate in enterprise governance forums to ensure CCO data considerations are embedded in enterprise change initiatives.

• Contribute to the CCO's AI enablement strategy, including use case identification, and drive adoption of AI capabilities through training, governance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with enterprise data, risk, legal, compliance and technology teams to ensure CCO contributes trusted data, clear controls and sustainable operating practices to enterprise AI solutions.
• Ensure CCO alignment with responsible AI principles, risk and compliance requirements.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in data strategy, including establishment or scaling of data governance capabilities, operating models or data offices within a complex organization.
• Extensive experience with Salesforce, Snowflake and Microsoft Power
  
  BI or other BI tools is required.
• Track record of leading cross‑functional initiatives across business, technology, risk and compliance teams, with exposure to senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting client, commercial, sales, relationship management, marketing or other front‑office data domains in financial services would be advantageous.

• Ability to define governance artifacts such as business glossaries, data dictionaries, ownership models, lineage views and data quality metrics.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and enterprise adoption considerations.
• Experience driving data literacy or data culture programs.
• Familiarity with regulatory, privacy and risk requirements impacting data usage.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex data concepts and business‑relevant insights to senior stakeholders.
• Strong program and prioritization skills, with the ability to translate business demand into sequenced roadmaps, delivery decisions and measurable outcomes.

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health, life insurance and well‑being benefits.
• Pension plan.
• Paid Time Off and personal/family care leaves.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model: 3 days onsite (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing) and 2 days remote.